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More or less equal?

机译：大致相等？

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Critics of capitalism are convinced that the gap between rich and poor is widening across the world. For them, the claim amounts almost to an article of faith: worsening inequality is a sure sign of the moral bankruptcy of "the system". Whether rising inequality should in fact be seen as condemning capitalism in this way is a question worth addressing in its own right. There are reasons to doubt it. But it would also be interesting to know the answer to the narrow factual question. Is the familiar claim that capitalism makes global inequality worse actually true? Unfortunately, this apparently straightforward question turns out to be harder to answer than one might suppose. There are three broad areas of difficulty. The first is measuring what people, especially the poorest people in developing countries, consume. The second is valuing consumption in a way that allows useful comparisons to be made across countries and over time. And the third, in effect, is settling on an appropriate basis of comparison. Which matters more, for instance: whether inequality is widening among nations, or whether inequality is widening among all the people of the world, regardless of which country they happen to live in? Judging any claim about global inequality is impossible without a clear understanding of how the researchers con-cerned have dealt with all three questions.
机译：资本主义的批评者相信，贫富差距在世界范围内正在扩大。对他们而言，这种要求几乎等于一种信仰：不平等的加剧是“系统”道德破产的肯定标志。实际上，是否应将日益加剧的不平等现象视为谴责资本主义，这是一个值得自己解决的问题。有理由对此表示怀疑。但是，了解狭fact的事实问题的答案也将很有趣。众所周知，资本主义会使全球不平等加剧的说法真的成立吗？不幸的是，这个显然简单的问题比一个人想象的要难回答。存在三个主要困难领域。首先是衡量人们，特别是发展中国家最贫穷的人们的消费量。第二个因素是对消费进行估价，以便在不同国家和时间上进行有益的比较。第三，实际上是在适当的比较基础上达成和解。例如，哪个更重要：国家之间的不平等是否正在扩大，或者世界上所有人民之间的不平等是否正在扩大，而不论他们生活在哪个国家？如果没有清楚地了解研究人员如何处理所有这三个问题，就不可能判断有关全球不平等的任何说法。

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